In this post I show a tool I built to easily create images. I typically use it to generate featured blog images. I started this tool a few years ago, but this iteration made it much better. I added the ability to save the image, and use some nice JS to select background images from different themes.

In The Unusual Books That Shaped 50+ Billionaires, Mega-Bestselling Authors, and Other Prodigies, Tim Ferriss provides a mega-list of the most-gifted and favorite books of top performers. I wondered which books were mentioned more than once?

In this post I will show you an example of non-Pythonic vs. Pythonic code. The latter is more concise and readable thus more maintainable. We will see two nice tricks, the negative list index stride, and optional key arg of the max builtin. These two language features aid us in writing more Pythonic code. Enjoy ...

In this post I use 42matters Google Play Top Charts API to analyze top app charts on Google Play. I zoom in on categories and compare Spain with US. What are the top (new) free, (new) paid and grossing categories? And what app categories are trending right now? Lastly I check Pokemon Go's success by using the Google Play App Rank History API

I certified in Quality Software Developer (#QSDcert) via SIG / PEOPLECERT. In this post I share what the exam is about, why I think it is a must have for a software developer, and how you can prepare for it.

I wanted to learn Pandas for quite some time. As usual on this blog I start with a practical exercise / goal, UK's EU referendum, and use (and learn) Pandas to analyze the results. I included the UK census data in my analysis which led to some interesting findings.